Pensacola Vocational School, for educating adults in auto mechanics, was open to all properly qualified citizens of Escambia County. 37-year-old Simpson White held similar qualifications to admitted applicants. He’d completed the seventh grade and was employed by the Naval Air Station. He presented himself to the County Superintendent, Dan J. Anderson, who refused to admit him because of his race. There was no other equal school for vocational training in the county for Black citizens. White took his case to the Circuit Court of Escambia County, claiming he’d been denied the equal protection of the law. Anderson claimed that he had the right to determine who was qualified and who was not, and said he’d denied White for being unqualified. The Court ruled in Anderson's favor. The case was taken to the Florida Supreme Court, which affirmed the lower court's ruling, saying they did not find any basis for White’s claim that he was refused admission only because of his race. They acknowledged that a Black person would not be admitted anyway, but they held that White was refused in this instance because he was unqualified. [186 words]